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Portrait De Groupe Avec Marge Marcel Jean Document generated on 09/27/2021 6:46 p.m. 24 images --> See the erratum for this article Portrait de groupe avec marge Marcel Jean Mettler, l’alchimiste Number 157, May–June–July 2012 URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/66869ac See table of contents Publisher(s) 24/30 I/S ISSN 0707-9389 (print) 1923-5097 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this article Jean, M. (2012). Portrait de groupe avec marge. 24 images, (157), 6–9. Tous droits réservés © 24/30 I/S, 2012 This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ Portrait de groupe avec marge par Marcel Jean Peter Mettler à la caméra et Atom Egoyan sur le tournage de Open House (1982), court métrage d’Egoyan. À N’EN PAS DOUTER, PETER METTLER APPARTIENT À CETTE NOUVELLE VAGUE DU CINÉMA ONTARIEN QUI FAIT son apparition au milieu de la décennie 1980, autour des figures d’Atom Egoyan et de Patricia Rozema, épaulées par Bruce McDonald, Ron Mann et quelques autres… À n’en pas douter, Peter Mettler s’inscrit dans la foulée d’une tradition du cinéma expérimental canadien dont Toronto est l’un des pôles importants… Mais par-delà ces affirmations, que signifie le fait d’être cinéaste ontarien lorsqu’on est né en 1958 et qu’on est sorti de l’école en 1982, auréolé d’un certain nombre de prix amassés au fil de quelques films étudiants ? ÊTRE UN CINÉASTE ONTARIEN… L’affirmation peut sembler brutale, étant donné la place qu’occupe the Road (1970) de Donald Shebib, Wedding in White (1972) de aujourd’hui Toronto dans le paysage cinématographique nord-amé- William Fruet, Outrageous ! (1977) de Richard Brenner (primé ricain, mais osons l’écrire : en 1982, le cinéma ontarien se résume à Berlin) et Alligator Shoes (1981) de Clay Borris (présenté à la à presque rien. Il y a bien eu Nobody Waved Good-Bye de Don Quinzaine des réalisateurs à Cannes). À ceux-là il faut ajouter Owen en 1964, mais c’est à Montréal qu’Owen a par la suite tourné quelques films commerciaux : The Silent Partner (1978) de Daryl Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail (1966) et The Ernie Duke, The Changeling (1980) de Peter Medak et Porky’s (1982) Game (1967). Il y a bien David Cronenberg qui réalise des longs de Bob Clark… En tout, sur une période de 20 ans, l’Ontario n’a métrages avec régularité depuis 1969, mais la plupart des œuvres produit en moyenne que huit longs métrages par année, incluant qui ont contribué à le faire connaître (Shivers, 1975 ; Rabid, les pornos et les œuvres résultant de la désastreuse politique d’abris 1976 ; Scanners, 1980) sont des films québécois, tournés autour fiscaux instituée en 1974. de Montréal et produits par le tandem André Link-John Dunning Le contexte dans lequel arrive la génération de Peter Mettler ou encore par Claude Héroux. Ce n’est, en fait, qu’à partir de 1986, peut ainsi sembler morose, mais il faut tempérer cette impression avec The Fly, que Cronenberg se pose véritablement à Toronto. en ajoutant que Toronto a son festival de cinéma depuis 1977, Entre 1964 et 1984, en plus du célèbre Nobody Waved Good- que l’ONF ouvre un centre de production à Toronto en 1976 et Bye, les rares classiques du cinéma ontarien sont le documentaire qu’à cette époque, la ville est en pleine expansion, se préparant à A Married Couple (1969) d’Allan King, l’excellent Goin’ Down damer le pion à Montréal comme métropole du Canada. La fin 6 24 images 157 Mettler , l’alchimiste de la décennie 1970 laisse donc entrevoir de nouvelles possibi- lités cinématographiques dans la Ville reine. UNE VAGUE CANADIENNE… On l’a écrit plus haut : Peter Mettler est né en 1958 (à Toronto). Patricia Rozema et Ron Mann sont nés la même année, respectivement à Kingston et à Toronto. Bruce McDonald est né en 1959, à Kingston. Quant à Atom Egoyan, il a vu le jour en 1960, en Égypte. Les prin- cipaux artisans de la nouvelle vague torontoise ont donc à peu près tous le même âge. Plus encore, Jeremy Podeswa est né à Toronto en 1962, Don McKellar en 1963, tout comme David Wellington. Un peu plus à l’ouest, du côté de Peter Mettler à la caméra, sur le tournage de The Top of His Head (1989) Winnipeg, Guy Maddin est né en 1956, John Paizs en 1957. Encore plus à l’ouest, Darrell Wasyk est né en 1958, à Edmonton ; cinéastes. Claude Jutra et Jean Pierre Lefebvre sont des modèles John Greyson en 1960, à Nelson, en Colombie-Britannique. souvent cités entre 1978 et 1984 dans les universités torontoises. C’est donc dire que la vague qui déferle à partir du milieu de la Atom Egoyan et Arsinée Khanjian vont d’ailleurs tenir les rôles décennie 1980 est non seulement torontoise, mais qu’elle englobe principaux dans La boîte à soleil (1988) de Lefebvre. Patricia l’ensemble du Canada anglais et qu’elle concerne un groupe de Rozema, de son côté, offre le rôle de la galeriste d’I’ve Heard the cinéastes révélés au monde alors qu’ils ont entre 25 et 35 ans. Plus Mermaids Singing (1987) à Paule Baillargeon. Niv Fichman, encore, ces cinéastes se connaissent : Next of Kin (1984) d’Atom premier producteur de Peter Mettler, est aussi le producteur de Egoyan en fait l’éclatante démonstration, puisque Peter Mettler François Girard. C’est pour Rhombus, société de Fichman, que en est le directeur photo, que Bruce McDonald y est assistant Mettler adapte, en 1992, la pièce Les plaques tectoniques de Robert au montage et Jeremy Podeswa directeur de production ; lorsque Lepage. Enfin, Catherine Martin collabore au montage de Picture Patricia Rozema réalise Passion : A Letter in 16 mm (1985), of Light. Mettler est aussi à la caméra ; lorsque Egoyan réalise Family En 1984, le festival de Toronto, qui s’appelle encore Festival of Viewing (1988), Mettler est encore à la caméra et McDonald au Festivals (il deviendra le TIFF plusieurs années plus tard), propose montage ; Egoyan tient un petit rôle dans Knock ! Knock ! (1985), une grande rétrospective de cinéma canadien, intitulée « Northern premier long métrage de Bruce McDonald dont Mettler est le Lights », où sont projetés plus de 200 films. C’est le premier événe- directeur photo ; Don McKellar coscé narise Roadkill (1989) et ment du genre depuis celui tenu à Montréal, en 1967, à l’occasion Highway 61 (1991), longs métrages qui révèlent McDonald, en de l’Exposition universelle. La rétrospective torontoise contribue plus de jouer dans les deux films ; McKellar tient ensuite des rôles à cristalliser, dans l’imaginaire local, la possibilité d’une cinéma- dans trois des films d’Egoyan ; Alexandra Raffé, productrice des tographie canadienne, jusque-là encore abstraite. La même année, premiers films de Patricia Rozema, est productrice exécutive de le festival crée sa section Perspective Canada, qui offre rapidement I Love a Man in Uniform (1993) de David Wellington ; Atom une tribune de choix aux jeunes cinéastes locaux. La nouvelle vague Egoyan, Thom Fitzgerald, Patricia Rozema et John Greyson sont canadienne y trouve son tremplin : McDonald et Podeswa vont tous remerciés au générique de The Five Senses (1999) de Jeremy remporter le Prix du meilleur long métrage canadien au festival de Podeswa, qui avait embauché Mettler comme directeur photo Toronto, récompense qu’Egoyan recevra à quatre reprises… Une pour son court métrage David Roche Talks to You About Love vague, faut-il encore préciser, qui n’émerge pas des plus importantes (1985) ; Mettler tient un petit rôle dans Listen to the City (1984) compagnies cinématographiques de Toronto, mais qui est plutôt de Ron Mann, etc. constituée de films à petits budgets (Next of Kin a été produit pour Le jeune cinéma québécois des années 1960 et 1970 occupe moins de 40 000 $; Family Viewing pour moins de 200 000 $), d’ailleurs une place tangible dans l’éducation cinéphilique de ces réalisés à l’extérieur de l’industrie locale. 24 images 157 7 Cette vague est aussi caractérisée par des films à l’ancrage réso- l’artiste, proche de l’esprit du théâtre d’avant-garde et des procédés lument postmoderne : contamination d’une forme d’expression du cinéma expérimental. majeure (le cinéma d’auteur) par des formes mineures (la vidéo Peter Mettler a étudié au Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (devenu domestique, l’esthétique de la sitcom) chez Egoyan ; métissage depuis l’université Ryerson) de 1977 à 1982. Ryerson est l’alma chez Rozema qui renvoie autant au slapstick (par la présence de mater du grand cinéaste expérimental Bruce Elder, réalisateur du Sheila McCarthy) qu’à l’opéra et à l’art contemporain ; recyclage de monumental cycle The Book of All the Dead (1982-1994), tourné l’esthétique du cinéma muet par Guy Maddin ; relation singulière sur une période de 18 ans et d’une durée de 40 heures de projection. aux genres (du polar au road movie, en passant par l’horreur, le Né en 1947, Elder commence à enseigner à Ryerson en 1978. Ses film musical et même le documentaire) chez Bruce McDonald. Des débuts professoraux au sein de l’école sont donc synchrones avec thèmes, enfin, souvent liés à l’identité, que celle-ci soit ethnique la présence de l’étudiant Mettler.
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